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Originally Posted by T@T
Your missing the point bud, we should have a stadium worthy of a a large city, it should be capable to host large events. I, as a city tax payer really hate to play second fiddle to crapholes like Edmonton and Vancouver because we don't have the facilitys.
I disagree with CalgaryNEXT because it's a "please build me" project that bleeds failure because it's not a good location for the city at all.
But in the end we do need two new stadiums to succeed as a real Canadian large city.
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I agree that the stadium should be state-of-the-art, but I don't believe that the permanent capacity should be well over what the primary tenant would be capable of reaching, otherwise the stadium would never be close to sold out and owners wasted money on building extra seats, which would be nosebleeds that are costly to build.
There demand is around the 30K mark so that's what they should build for. For any event that comes around that would induce higher capacity, temporary seats could be installed to boost the capacity about 10K or so if needed. For touring concerts, with field/stage level seating, that would get you close to the -40K mark. And added temp seats could draw in close to 45K spectators then. (One side of the stadium wouldn't have spectators since they wouldn't be able to see the stage)
I'm not sure what the average turnout for concerts at BC Place and Commonwealth Stadium is, but Taylor Swift drew in 45K, and One Direction did 50K, respectively. BC Place capacity is 54K while Commonwealth is 60K, and they never sell out the stadium aside from major events. Meanwhile, BMO Field in Toronto - the city with the greatest density by far, just got their football team to move there, and it was just expanded to 30,991. And this is going to be a venue that's gonna host the grey cup, an outdoor hockey game, and a fair share of concerts one could imagine.
So there isn't a need for Calgary to build a +50K venue when it may need that much only once every few years. With ~31K seats It should do just fine for the +10 football games, the +18 MLS games wants to draw in, and be capable of hosting a 45K summer concert. For its intended purposes, it would still be capable of looking like a high standard stadium.